The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-05-05
QUE WASHINGTON LETTER.

Coleman the Department of Agriculture
has been engaged during the past year
| in careful study of the question relat.
ing to the manufacture of oleomargarine
and other substitutes for butter, which
during the past few years has become an
in nportant industry in some sections OF
the country. Chemical aud microscop.
ical tests have been in progress for sew.
eral months. The results of the observa-
tions will be of great benefit to the con.
sumers of butter, and of interest to the
general reader. During the course of
the Investigations it has been ascertained
| that large majority Of the cleomarga.
rine factories are run upon the strictly
business principle of securing the larg-
est possible returns for the capital inves.
ted, and the question of public Eealth
| seems to have been entirely ignored. 1t
has been common in some of these estab.
lishments to utilize the carcasses of
horses, dog and swine, and the manufac-
turers have not been in the least particu.
lar as to the age or condition of the
meat, as by the use of chemical prepare.
tions offensive smells are destroyed.
The Commissioner in his report says !:
"Too much in condemnation of these
practices cannot be said, and 30 long as
am commissioners of agriculture, just
80 long will l raise my voice against q
continuance of the evil. There is a
great deal OF capital invested in this en-.
terprise, to be sure, and particularly in
the West, but that does not justify its
manufacture, in my opinion, for it is
against the people, and should be frowned
down. Chemical and miscroscopical
tests have been in progress under the
supervision of Profs. Wylie and Taylor,
of the agricultural department, for sew
eral months, and the result of their OBJ.
seryations will be of great benefit to the
consumers of butter. l trust they will
be scattered broadcast, and bear good
fruit"
During the administration of Presi.
dent Grant a very beautifully designed
card, having in its upper left hand cor
ner a finely executed steel plate engrav-
ing of the White House, wss adopted for
general use in issuing invitations to din.
ners, and receptions at the Executive
mansion. Subsequently new design
was adopted and the stock of old cards
was placed in the room in which waste
material is stored. In looking about the
apartment recently, the President
chanced to discover the cards and he at
once resolved to turn them to account, in
supplying the persistent and never ceas.
ing demand for his autograph. The
cards were removed to his private Office,
and during the past week very large
number of persons who have written to
the President for his autograph have
been surprised to receive one of these
beautiful cards with the signature
"Groyer Cleveland"
The fashionable amusement of the city
now is what is termed "paper hunt"
Almost every clear day there is held
meeting" The hunt consists in ap./
pointing persons as hares who are given
a lead distributing along their route
scraps Of paper. The object being for.
the hounds-who are the main body of
the party-to follow the trail of the hares
and if possible overtake them before
they reach the finish which i1 generally
about 5 miles distance and near some
residence where refreshments await their
arrival, and as the sport is one calculated
to sharpen the appetite, due justice is
always done to the collation..
The Grant relics which have been for
several months safely guarded in one of
the private rooms of the National Mu.
scum, are now being placed on public
exhibition. To-day two handsome
plushed.lined cases filled with articles
from the collection were placed in the
north hall of the Museum, near the main
entrance. They contain the presentation
swords, gold.headed canes, caskets, me.
dallions, and many other costly and
elegant articles presented by different
people at different times to Gen. Grant.
Many of these atticles are souvenirs of
his trip around the world. There is q
splendid collection of Japanese coins
one series of seven pieces old Japanese
gold coins of huge size, being valued at
$4,000. There are also invitation cards,
menu cards and reminders of entertain.
ments given in his honor, engraved on
gold plates. n.